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December 20, 2016
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly recently spoke with Sugarman Rogers partner John O’Neill in preparing an article on a December 2016 decision of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit charging that a liability-insurance company breached its duty defend. The court held that under the applicable policy terms the duty did not arise because no lawsuit had been filed against the insured.
John, a member of Sugarman Rogers’s Insurance & Reinsurance practice group, was cited by Lawyers Weekly as suggesting that the court had “adopted a typical interpretation of the duty to defend,” notwithstanding “some non-standard policy language that was ‘not nearly as clear’ as more standard policies.” “If every [chapter] 93A demand letter triggered a duty to defend,” John told Lawyers Weekly, “it would broaden the scope of the policy’s coverage pretty dramatically.”the policy’s coverage pretty dramatically,” he said.
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John O’Neill talks to Lawyers Weekly about recent decision on insurer’s duty to defend |
Date: December 20, 2016 |
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Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly recently spoke with Sugarman Rogers partner John O’Neill in preparing an article on a December 2016 decision of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit charging that a liability-insurance company breached its duty defend. The court held that under the applicable policy terms the duty did not arise because no lawsuit had been filed against the insured. John, a member of Sugarman Rogers’s Insurance & Reinsurance practice group, was cited by Lawyers Weekly as suggesting that the court had “adopted a typical interpretation of the duty to defend,” notwithstanding “some non-standard policy language that was ‘not nearly as clear’ as more standard policies.” “If every [chapter] 93A demand letter triggered a duty to defend,” John told Lawyers Weekly, “it would broaden the scope of the policy’s coverage pretty dramatically.”the policy’s coverage pretty dramatically,” he said. |
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John G. O'NeillPartner617.227.3030[email protected] |
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